Southeastern blueberry bee
The southeastern blueberry bee looks like a small bumblebee. It is a blueberry superhero: it grabs a blueberry flower and buzzes so hard that the pollen shakes out. It only flies for a few weeks each spring, right when the blueberries bloom.
How big is it?
How long is it?
How big is Southeastern blueberry bee compared to YOU?
Just maths in your browser. Nothing is saved or sent anywhere.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
It is the best helper for southern blueberries, because their flowers only open up their pollen when a bee buzzes them.
Each bee lives alone, but many dig their nest tunnels close together in sunny ground.
It is busy for only 3 to 5 weeks a year.
The boys have a yellow patch on their face, while the girls have an all-black head.
Each mum digs a tunnel just a bit wider than her body and fills it with food for her own babies.
Most asked questions about Southeastern blueberry bee
?Why is it called the blueberry bee?
Because it is the best pollinator of blueberry flowers in the south-eastern United States.
?Does the blueberry bee live in a hive?
No. Each bee digs its own tunnel in the ground, though many nest close together.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Habropoda laboriosa
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1804
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Habropoda laboriosa (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Jerry A. Payne. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
If we got something wrong, sorry, we are bug fans, not a science journal. Tell us at hello@bugwiki.app and we will fix it.
Western honey bee
Buff-tailed bumblebee
Violet carpenter bee
Giant honey bee
Wallace's giant bee
Himalayan giant honey bee
Carolina mantis
Garden tiger moth
Hummingbird clearwing
Northern paper wasp
Black vine weevil
Christmas beetle